push-rod

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In a freight-car airbrake, the rod which connects the piston-rod of the air-cylinder with the brake-setting mechanism.

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Examples

There was one, for instance, near Colsterworth, where their first car (a two-cylinder roller-skate with overhead valves and partially exposed viscera, very sweet and willing but extremely second-hand) had dropped a push-rod; which, after a long search, they had recovered from the gutter a quarter of a mile behind.

The exhaust valve in the cylinder head is then opened by means of the push-rod and rocker, and is held open until the piston has completed its upward stroke and returned through more than half its subsequent return stroke.

The inlet and exhaust valves are located in the cylinder head, and both valves are mechanically operated by one push-rod and rocker, radial pipes from crank case to inlet valve casing taking the mixture to the cylinders.

Distinctive characteristics: The first team to launch their 2011 model, Ferrari raised eyebrows by opting to stick with a push-rod rear suspension rather than copy Red Bull's pull-rod layout from last year.

Neither of these vehicles will give you a fraction of the driving pleasure that once came from a push-rod V8 Mustang convertible or even a quirky, air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle; but the Soul and the Cube both have bullet-proof reliability, a gigantic amount of usable space inside and a tiny little four-cylinder engine that barely consumes fuel.